A Critical Reappraisal of the Dynamical Approach to Cognition

Approaches to cognitive science have been socially divided into dynamical and computational camps. We break down the dynamical approach into finer components, suggesting a new taxonomy of dynamical approaches to cognition and questioning the logical unity of the dynamical school. We dispel some confusions surrounding the concepts of dynamical systems, computation, and the relation between the two. We introduce and argue for the notion of "cognition as it could be" and show its value in analysing the dynamicists' account of time